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ethicalcareersexhibition Graduate profile snapshots Dr Geoff Foster, an Imperial maths graduate from 1974 recently received an OBE and an award from the Schwab Foundation in Geneva for his work in the fight against AIDS in southern Africa. www.union.ic.ac.uk/ethicalcareersexhibition Amjad Saleem, who graduated from Imperial in 2000, is currently representing Muslim Aid in Sri Lanka, helping to regenerate the country in the wake of last year’s tsunami. His work involves redeveloping the devastated area, and encouraging donors to sponsor animal adoption and tree-planting to help get communities back on their feet. Sinéad McBrearty proves that if everything doesn’t go quite right with your first degree, ethical career options are still open. Having dropped out in her first year, Sinéad went on to become Strategy Manager for the Financial Services Business Unit at KPMG, where she found time to study for a BSc from the Open University, among other qualifications. Feeling the need to move on to something with a social dimension, she left the financial sector after seven years and was snapped up by Social Enterprise London. “I wasn’t sure that the pure voluntary sector would suit me; social enterprise allows me to combine a social agenda with all the fun of running a business and making money. All profit is reinvested in supporting grassroots social enterprises.” Sinéad is now involved with increasing the number of social enterprises in London. Find out more about her work and the ever-expanding social enterprise sector at today’s exhibition. Jonathan Thomas went on from an Imperial physics degree to a career in the energy sector. He now works for the DTI to promote British technologies for reducing carbon emissions… and was last seen advising Chilean pig farmers on converting waste methane into electricity. Nigel Fitzpatrick did both his degree and PhD at RSM in metallurgy, and went on to develop the process used by Alcan to recycle aluminium cans in the early 80s. Since then, he’s got into hybrid vehicles, and set up Azure Dynamics to build them. Azure has just launched a new hybrid electric Citibus, and is at the cutting edge of hybrid vehicle technology. Nigel’s advice for Imperial graduates? “Remember Einstein, Newton, Arrhenius and Porsche were in their 20’s when they had their best ideas... so start young!” Joanna Sprackett studied an MSc in Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine at Imperial last year. During her time here she helped organise the Union’s contribution to the Make Poverty History campaign, including transporting 50 people to Edinburgh for the G8 counter-conference. She can now be found in Brussels working with the Quaker Council for European Affairs to promote peace, human rights and economic justice at the heart of the European Union. A5 Reserved for sponsor log- os in colour
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ethicalcareersexhibitionGraduate profile snapshots
Dr Geoff Foster, an Imperial maths graduate from 1974 recently received an OBE and an award from the Schwab Foundation in Geneva for his work in the fight against AIDS in southern Africa.
www.union.ic.ac.uk/ethicalcareersexhibition
Amjad Saleem, who graduated from Imperial in 2000, is currently representing Muslim Aid in Sri Lanka, helping to regenerate the country in the wake of last year’s tsunami. His work involves redeveloping the devastated area, and encouraging donors to sponsor animal adoption and tree-planting to help get communities back on their feet.
Sinéad McBrearty proves that if everything doesn’t go quite right with your first degree, ethical career options are still open. Having dropped out in her first year, Sinéad went on to become Strategy Manager for the Financial Services Business Unit at KPMG, where she found time to study for a BSc from the Open University, among other qualifications. Feeling
the need to move on to something with a social dimension, she left the financial sector after seven years and was snapped up by Social Enterprise London. “I wasn’t sure that the pure voluntary sector would suit me; social enterprise allows me to combine a social agenda with all the fun of running a business and making money. All profit is reinvested in supporting grassroots social enterprises.” Sinéad is now involved with increasing the number of social enterprises in London. Find out more about her work and the ever-expanding social enterprise sector at today’s exhibition.
Jonathan Thomas went on from an Imperial physics degree to a career in the energy sector. He now works for the DTI to promote British technologies for reducing carbon emissions… and was last seen advising Chilean pig farmers on converting waste methane into electricity.
Nigel Fitzpatrick did both his degree and PhD at RSM in metallurgy, and went on to develop the process used by Alcan to recycle aluminium cans in the early 80s. Since then, he’s got into hybrid vehicles, and set up Azure Dynamics to build them. Azure has just launched a new hybrid electric Citibus, and is at the cutting edge of hybrid vehicle technology. Nigel’s advice for Imperial graduates? “Remember
Einstein, Newton, Arrhenius and Porsche were in their 20’s when they had their best ideas... so start young!”
Joanna Sprackett studied an MSc in Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine at Imperial last year. During her time here she helped organise the Union’s contribution to the Make Poverty History campaign, including transporting 50 people to Edinburgh for the G8 counter-conference. She can now be found in Brussels working with the Quaker Council for European Affairs to promote peace, human rights and economic justice at the heart of the European Union.
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